Martin Gallagher was born in Scotland in 1960 of Irish parents, and
moved to Donegal in 1963 and in 1972 the family relocated to Manchester, there
he remained until he was 20, later returning to live in Ireland, where the
beauty of the landscape wove its magic on him.As an artist, Martin was a
child prodigy and has been painting ever since. In terms of his artistic
development, his first love was watercolour and he worked in this medium for
over ten years. Eventually Martin moved to oil and acrylic, finding in these
media a fresh challenge and a chance to work on larger pieces. His work has an
abstract quality, often providing a hint of sky, buildings or other material
content, without ever getting too specific. The finished works are projections
of the imagination mostly systematic arrangements of space and more importantly,
colour. The artist's brush is directed only by a desire to transcend all
painting formulae and to express something unique about his present visions and
feelings.